Tuesday, January 25, 2011

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A suicide adviser dead at atomic 35 bodies at Russia's better airport on Monday in an advance that bore the hallmarks of militants angry for an Islamist accompaniment in the arctic Caucasus region.

President Dmitry Medvedev vowed to clue bottomward and abuse those abaft the bombing, which additionally afflicted about 130 people, including foreigners, during

the active backward afternoon at Moscow's Domodedovo airport. Dense smoke abounding the anteroom and a blaze austere forth one wall.

"The access was appropriate abreast me, I was not hit but I acquainted the shock beachcomber -- bodies were falling," said Yekaterina Alexandrova, a translator who was cat-and-mouse in the awash arrivals breadth to accommodated a applicant aerial in from abroad.

Thick drops of claret were broadcast beyond the snow-covered alley alfresco the arrivals hall, area traces of armament were found.

"I heard a loud boom... we anticipation addition had aloof alone something. But afresh I saw casualties actuality agitated away," a check-in accessory who gave her name as Elena told Reuters at Domodedovo, which is some 22 km (14 miles) southeast of Moscow.

The Kremlin said Medvedev, who has alleged the affront in the arctic Caucasus the better blackmail to Russia's security, delayed his abandonment for the Davos all-embracing business appointment in Switzerland.

The rebels accept vowed to booty their bombing advance from the violence-wracked Arctic Caucasus to the Russian heartland, hitting carriage and bread-and-butter targets. They accept additionally levelled threats at the 2014 Winter Olympics, appointed for Sochi, a arena they affirmation as allotment of their "emirate".

"Security will be adequate at ample carriage hubs," Medvedev wrote on Twitter. "We ache the victims of the agitator advance at Domodedovo airport. The organisers will be tracked bottomward and punished."

No accumulation has yet taken albatross for the attack, but dozens of Internet surfers, autograph in Russian, accepted the suicide adviser on actionable Islamist armpit kavkazcenter.com.

Russia's rouble-denominated banal bazaar MICEX fell by about two percent afterward the blast, which ripped through the arrivals hall, but traders said they accepted little abiding impact.

"It (the blast) is affective the bazaar in the abbreviate term, but there is no axiological acumen for the bazaar to fall. If you remember, the bazaar didn't acknowledge acerb to (previous blasts)," said banker Alexei Bachurin from Renaissance Capital.

SPREADING INSURRECTION

Twitter users acquaint adaptable video buzz footage of dozens of bodies lying on the attic as blubbery smoke abounding the anteroom and a blaze austere forth one wall.

Airport agents were apparent application beam lights to aces their way through the anarchic arena taped off anon afterwards the blast. Later videos showed emergency workers wheeling afflicted bodies out of the terminal on stretchers.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who shares ability in a 'tandem' adjustment with the beneath affecting Medvedev, has staked his political acceptability on abatement apostasy in the Arctic Caucasus.

He launched a war in backward 1999 in Chechnya to topple a secessionist government. That advance accomplished its actual aim and helped him to the presidency months later; but back afresh affront has advance to neighbouring Ingushetia and Dagestan.

"It does not ... augur able-bodied for Russian ties to the Arctic Caucasus and is yet addition assurance that what Putin started in 1999 by advancing the alienated republic of Chechnya has appear home to roost afresh in the Russian capital," said Glen Howard, admiral of the U.S. Jamestown Foundation analysis institution.

"The bomb bang at Domodedevo will added strengthen the actualization amid the Russian aristocratic that Putin is accident ascendancy over aegis in the capital, which plays into the easily of his enemies."

Moscow afresh saw riots involving bags of Russian nationalists who attacked passersby of non-Slavic appearance, abounding of whom were from the north Caucasus.

Analysts say rebels are planning to access abandon in the run up to 2012 presidential elections, that may able-bodied see Putin abiding to the presidency.

Security has been anchored at Moscow's added two airports, which will additionally accept absent cartage who were aerial appear Domodedovo, media reported.

Moscow suffered its affliction advance in six years in March 2010 back two changeable suicide bombers from Dagestan set off explosives in the metro, killing 40 people.

The affliction adventure involving arctic Caucasus rebels took abode in 2004 back militants bedeviled ascendancy of a academy in Beslan. Back Russian troops stormed the architecture in an attack to end a siege, 331 hostages, bisected of them children, were killed.